Tag: Daughter of Eagles
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The Seven Against the Seven Hills: The Ancient-Medieval Mashup of the Roman de Thèbes & the Roman d’Eneas
“If lord Homer and lord Plato, and Virgil and Cicero, had concealed their knowledge, there would never have been any talk of them. For this reason I do not wish to keep my intelligence hidden, or to suppress my knowledge, rather does it please me to recount something worthy to be remembered.” — Roman de […]
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Getting Away the Roman Way: Drama, Death, and Debauchery in Baiae
To witness persons wandering drunk along the beach, the riotous revelling of sailing parties, the lakes a-din with choral song, and all the other ways in which luxury, when it is, so to speak, released from the restraints of law not merely sins, but blazons its sins abroad, – why must I witness all this? – […]
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Obligatory Sales Post (+ a Preview!)
I know I’ve been doing a lot of sales pushing here recently, and I promise that’ll settle down again after this week, but I’m so excited to say that my third book, Children of Actium, is live and available for purchase at the digital provider of your choice and in paperback via Amazon! Links are below, […]
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Scribbling in the Wild: Creative Writing, Self-Publishing, and Finding Your Inner Author in 2022 (Part 1)
As we reach the end of another fraught year with unfortunately more of the same looming on the horizon, I thought I’d take a break from telling all of you things you’d rather not know about the ancient world and talk a little about my main gig, writing. When I talk to people about writing […]
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“That Best of Men”: Virgil, Horace, and a Friendship in Verse
As usual, I spent most of the past couple of days being completely stymied as to what to talk about this week, but then I remembered that today (October 15th) is Virgil’s birthday (he’s turning 2,091). So in his honor, I thought we’d talk a little about ancient Rome’s most famous poet. But since Virgil […]
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History’s Heirs: The Royal House of Mauretania
Great neighbouring regions of the world, which divides the Nile,/ Swollen from black Ethiopia, divides,/ You have created common kings for both through marriage, making one race of Egyptians and Libyans./ Let the children of Kings in turn hold from their fathers a strong rule over both lands. – epigram on the occasion of the marriage […]
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Barefoot in Rome: The Political Iconography of the Prima Porta Augustus
I’ve been talking a lot about Egypt and Greece for the last month or so, I thought I’d circle back to Rome and talk about some more political art during the early imperial era. Specifically, we’re going to take a deeper look at the the Augustus of Prima Porta, the best-known of Octavius’ portraits and arguably […]
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Guess Who’s Coming to the Sacrifice: The Ara Pacis and Speculative Archeology
“When I returned from Spain and Gaul after successfully settling the affairs of those provinces, in the consulship of Tiberius Nero and Publius Quintilius, the Senate decreed that the Ara Pacis should be consecrated for my return near the Campus Martius, and ordered that the magistrates, preists, and the Vestal Virgins should there make an […]
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The Jester of Tortuga: Caesar and the Pirates
Zoot: Hey man, I can’t figure out what side we’re on. Are we with the pirates or the frog captain? Floyd Pepper: Oh, hey, man. Just play the gig. Never get involved in politics… — Muppet Treasure Island Well, folks, it’s the Ides of March, so I bet you all came here for some dank […]
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Family Plots: The Mausoleum of Augustus
“Oh, sure. Family, I know how that goes.” – Bo Catlett, Get Shorty I was snared by another article on my way to write up an entry for this week, though this one involving something a little more current-affairs than the Meidum Geese. After an intensive four-year restoration project, the Mausoleum of Augustus is being […]
Sarah Holz 